Outline of ancient Greece
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece:
Ancient Greece – period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western civilization and shaped cultures throughout Southwest Asia and North Africa. Greek culture had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Europe. The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts, inspiring the Islamic Golden Age and the Western European Renaissance, and again resurgent during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th- and 19th-century Europe and the Americas.
What type of thing is ancient Greece?
Ancient Greece can be described as all of the following:
- Ancient civilization
- Ancient civilization from classical antiquity
- Bronze Age civilization
- Iron Age civilization
- Part of the Greco-Roman world
Geography of ancient Greece
Regions of ancient Greece
- Thessaly
- Pherae
- Larissa
- Autonomous Subregion
- Magnesia
- Subregions within Thessaly
- Achaea Phthiotis
- Histiaeotis
- Pelasgiotis
- Perrhaebia
- Epirus
- Cities in ancient Epirus
- Athamania
- Chaonia
- Dassaretia
- Antipatrea
- Kodrion
- Gertus
- Creonion
- Molossis
- Thesprotia
- Parauaea
- Tymphaea
- Macedon
- Hellespont
- Sea of Marmara
- Magna Grecia
- Greek colonies
Government and politics of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek law
Military of ancient Greece
Warfare in ancient Greece
Military history of ancient Greece
Military history of ancient Greece
Military conflict
- Greco-Persian Wars – series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
General history of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek history, by period
- Prehistoric Greek history
- Aegean Bronze Age
- Greek Dark Ages
- History of ancient Greece (timeline)
- Archaic Greece
- Rise of the polis
- Greco-Persian Wars
- Siege of Naxos (499 BC)
- Ionian Revolt
- Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)
- First Persian invasion of Greece
- Second Persian invasion of Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic Greece
- Roman Greece
- Archaic Greece
Ancient Greek history, by region
- Ancient Athens
- Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BC, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
- Solon (c. 638 – c. 558 BC)– Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. Legislated against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.[1][2][3][4]
- Cleisthenes (born around 570 BC). – father of Athenian democracy. He reformed the constitution of ancient Athens and set it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.
- Ephialtes (died 461 BC) – led the democratic revolution against the Athenian aristocracy, which exerted control through the Areopagus, the most powerful body in the state.[5] Ephialtes proposed a reduction of the Areopagus' powers, and the Ecclesia (the Athenian Assembly) adopted Ephialtes' proposal without opposition. This reform signaled the beginning of a new era of "radical democracy" for which Athens would become famous.
- Pericles – arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman. When Ephialtes was assassinated for overthrowing the elitist Council of the Aeropagus, his deputy Pericles stepped in. He was elected strategos (one of ten such posts) in 445 BCE, which he held continuously until his death in 429 BCE, always by election of the Athenian Assembly. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is known as the "Age of Pericles".
- Ostracism – procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.
- Areopagus – council of elders of Athens, similar to the Roman Senate. Like the Senate, its membership was restricted to those who had held high public office, in this case that of Archon.[6] In 594 BC, the Areopagus agreed to hand over its functions to Solon for reform.
- Ecclesia – principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens during its "Golden Age" (480–404 BCE). It was the popular assembly, open to all male citizens with 2 years of military service. In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class, even the thetes (manual laborers).
- Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BC, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
- History of Sparta
Works on ancient Greek history
Culture of ancient Greece
Culture of ancient Greece
- Architecture of ancient Greece
- Ancient Greek roofs
- Buildings
- Calendar of ancient Greece
- Clothing in ancient Greece
- Coinage of ancient Greece
- Cuisine of ancient Greece
- Wine in ancient Greece
- Economy of ancient Greece
- Education in ancient Greece
- People in ancient Greece
- Sexuality in ancient Greece
- Slavery in ancient Greece
Art in ancient Greece
Art in ancient Greece
- Music in ancient Greece
- Sculpture in ancient Greece
- Theatre of ancient Greece
Literature in ancient Greece
Literature in ancient Greece
- Writers
Philosophy in ancient Greece
Philosophy in ancient Greece
Sport in ancient Greece
Sports
Equipment
Stadiums
Religion in ancient Greece
Religion in ancient Greece
- Greek mythology
- Greek gods (immortals)
- Hellenistic religion
Language in ancient Greece
- Ancient Greek, by period
- Homeric Greek
- Koine Greek
- Mycenaean Greek language
- Ancient Greek dialects
- Ancient Greek grammar
- Ancient Greek phonology
- Greek alphabet
- Greek diacritics
Science of ancient Greece
- Ancient Greek science
- Greek astronomy
- Greek mathematics
Technology of ancient Greece
- Agriculture in ancient Greece
- Clothing in ancient Greece
- Engineering of ancient Greece
- Medicine in ancient Greece
- Pottery of ancient Greece
- Units of measurement in ancient Greece
See also
References
- ↑ Stanton, G.R. Athenian Politics c800–500BC: A Sourcebook, Routledge, London (1990), p. 76.
- ↑ Andrews, A. Greek Society (Penguin 1967) 197
- ↑ E. Harris, A New Solution to the Riddle of the Seisachtheia, in 'The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece', eds. L. Mitchell and P. Rhodes (Routledge 1997) 103
- ↑ Aristotle Politics 1273b 35–1274a 21.
- ↑ Fornara-Samons, Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles, 24–25
- ↑ Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians §3
External links
- The Canadian Museum of Civilization—Greece Secrets of the Past
- Ancient Greece website from the British Museum
- Economic history of ancient Greece
- The Greek currency history
- Limenoscope, an ancient Greek ports database
- The Ancient Theatre Archive, Greek and Roman theatre architecture
- Illustrated Greek History—Dr. Janice Siegel, Department of Classics, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia
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